If your WordPress website is running sluggish, it could be because of one of the WordPress plugins you have active. Using the P3 Performance Plugin in WordPress will allow you to see which ones are taking the longest to load.

Install and use P3 Performance Profile Plugin

Login to WordPress dashboard

Under Plugins click on Add New

Type in P3 in the search box.

Beside the P3 (Plugin Performance Plugin)

click on Install Now

Click on Activate Plugin

Click on Scan Now

Click on Start Scan

Give your scan a name

click on Auto Scan

Click on View Results

Here we can see the Nextgen Gallery is our highest usage plugin, and our plugins account for 82.7% of our total site usage.

If you click on the Detailed Breakdown tab, you can see even clearer which plugin is taking the majority of the load time.

Now hopefully you have pinpointed the particular WordPress plugin that was causing your WordPress site to either run slow, or cause excessive amounts of resource usage on the server.

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